Home heating oil pollutes Lindenwold lake

A clean-up effort was underway Thursday morning at Linden Lake in Lindenwold after the lake was polluted by home heating oil from a nearby house undergoing renovations.(Photo: Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer )

LINDENWOLD - A clean-up continued Thursday at a local lake polluted by home heating oil, authorities say.

Linden Lake was tainted Wednesday by heating oil that came from a house undergoing renovations, said Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen.

"The source of the spill is a fuel tank at a house on Holly Road in Gibbsboro," said Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, which is leading the clean-up effort.

"The cause is under investigation," he said.

“It looks like a home renovator was pumping home heating oil out of a basement into a backyard,” noted Keashen.

"A wetlands area sustained the greatest impact," Hajna said. "Emergency responders put out booms to prevent further spreading into the lake."

He said workers for a DEP contractor are "removing product from the wetlands, lake and a drainage swale."

A clean-up effort was underway Thursday morning at Linden Lake in Lindenwold after the lake was polluted by home heating oil from a nearby house undergoing renovations. Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer

A clean-up effort was underway at Linden Lake in Lindenwold on Thursday morning after the lake was polluted by home heating oil from a nearby house undergoing renovations. Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer

A clean-up effort was underway Thursday morning at Linden Lake in Lindenwold after the lake was polluted by home heating oil from a nearby house undergoing renovations.
Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer